Word: ransoming
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Militant unionists hold the nation at ransom...
...growing anti-union sentiment. Particularly offensive to many Britons are the truckers' "flying pickets," who race from one point to another, hampering deliveries by nonunion drivers. A bill enacted by the Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1974 is allowing truckers to hold the entire nation virtually at ransom by preventing shipments to plants and businesses with no direct role in the union negotiations. More than 200,000 workers have been laid off from factories idled by a lack of raw materials and supplies. Almost $2 billion worth of imports and exports are piling up at British ports because...
...arrested in Buenos Aires and brutalized by security police. He manages to rescue them both, and then, for reasons not entirely clear, is put on the hit list of any number of nasty organizations. In retaliation, Spada secures a toxic substance sufficient to hold the entire world for ransom. In short, he becomes the most terrible terrorist of them...
Captured after hijacking a TWA airliner for $306,800 ransom in 1972, he was finally sentenced to life imprisonment...
Should Mr. Brown forego our warning and suit up for the game, we will turn to our second plan, that being a ransom note for Joe Restic, Jr., who we have locked in a room with Lindsey Nelson...